Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

Calls on both houses of National Legislature without delay to support the gov’t effort by enacting the law. The Civil Society Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia has issued a press statement on the Abolition of the Death Penalty by the Liberian government. According to the CSO Platform, after cycles nearly 15 years of the United Nations Human Rights Council-Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, Liberia has accepted to abolish the death penalty. In May 2022, the government of Liberia in a communication to the national legislature by President George Manneh Weah submitted a bill for the enactment of a law…

Montserrado County District #4, an overpopulated district, with fewer facilities, mainly health for its citizens’ well-being is challenged. The Thomas Foundation is a humanitarian organization that has come in the wake of the difficulties to buttress government efforts to impact the lives of the people in the district. As the 4.5 million population of Liberia is challenged in a number of ways, the Majority of the citizens lack electricity, pipe-borne water, quality education, and good hospital, among others. Liberians’ poor health sector is a result of the health nightmare by the negligence and inaction of previous and present governments. The…

The founder and Technical Director of ELITE Sports Academy have begun scouting kids for the Academy’s upcoming training program. The recruitment exercise according to the founder and Executive Director Jeremiah Grant is ongoing at the Invincible Sports Park in the Air Field Community and will last till the end of July 2022. The academy Executive Director is encouraging parents who have kids between the ages of 10 – 15 years and are interested in sports especially soccer to allow them to participate in the recruitment exercise at the Invincible Sports Park every Tuesday and Thursday during the evening hours. The…

The Better Future Foundation (BFF), has called for the urgent and timely induction of the National Elections Commission’s (NEC) declared Lofa County Senator-elect, Cllr. James K. Jallah to alleviate the deepening development deficit being caused by the prolonged underrepresentation of Lofa County in the National Legislature. While applauding all senatorial candidates, state-security personnel, as well as the peace-loving people of Lofa County for their classic display of high sense of political maturity that led to the peaceful conduct of the June 28, 2022 by-election, BFF said the speedy induction of the Lofa County Senator-elect cannot be over emphasized. BFF maintains…

Former Vice President and Standard Bearer of the Unity Party (UP), Joseph Nyuma Boakai has called for the immediate replacement of the entire Board of Commissioners of the National Elections Commission of Liberia (NEC), stating that the current Elections Commission is not representative of the people’s interest and should therefore be scrapped and replaced by competent and partisan free NEC to prepare for the 2023 general and presidential elections. Boakai’s statement comes on the heels of the results of the just-ended Senatorial By-election held in Lofa County in which he expressed total dissatisfaction and has said the legal team of…

Criminal Court ‘A’ Judge Roosevelt Willie has sentenced murderer of John Hilary Tubman, son of the late President William V.S. Tubman to Life Imprisonment. Judge Willie’s decision today was followed by a unanimous guilty verdict handed down by twelve member jurors at the Temple of Justice. It can be recalled on September 21, 2021, Mr. John Tubman’s lifeless body was found in his Fiaham home in Sinkor-Monrovia. During Defendant Anderson’s testimonies, he disclosed that he killed Victim Tubman for allegedly having Sexual intercourse with him in his Anus. According to Anderson, Mr. Tubman was a Childhood friend of his father…

Mano Manufacturing Company Presents 25K check to GoL In Liberia, the young people constitute over 65% of the country’s 4.5 million population. In the Liberian context, zogos are wayward citizens, many of whom are found between ages 15 to 35yrs most of whom are found of thievery and sometimes physically attacking and harassing pedestrians for their survival.The rise in disadvantaged Youth, (zogos) is a challenge currently facing the country. This menace continues to threaten public safety and security. The fact is Liberia, the oldest West African Independence Nation has more to do with liberating its youthful population from this nuisance…

In connection with a shooting incident that happened in the Fuel Oil Community, Point Four, Bushrod Island, the Liberia National Police has with immediate effect disrobed and turned over James Togba, one of its Emergency Response Unit (ERU) officers. Olando Bloh, a 37-year-old resident of New Kru Town, was shot and killed in the shooting event, according to information the LNP administration learned late yesterday evening at 7 PM. According to the LNP, the victim was taken to the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, where the attending physician later declared him dead. The officer is currently being investigated while in…

As Unity Party Rocks In Conflict The just-ended Senatorial by-election in Lofa County was won by the governing Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) backed and supported candidate, Cllr. Joseph Jallah against the main opposition, the former ruling Unity Party, and its standard-bearer former Vice President Joseph N. Boakai is being struck down with politico uproars that have placed the former Vice President’s hope of holding on to the standard-bearer title on sinking sand. A well-placed source within the former ruling Unity Party has informed this news outlet that since the collection of results from the by-election on June 28, 2022,…

The Liberia National Police has arrested an Executive Protection Service (EPS) officer Patrick Kollie for allegedly shooting and killing Velantine T. Johnson at the Police Academy Junction Sunday night. The shooting incident left one person dead with the corpse deposited at the JFK Hospital. According to the LNP, circumstances surrounding the shooting incident are being currently investigated by the Liberian National Police, while the alleged suspect remains in police custody, and promise to update the public as the investigation progresses. Meanwhile, EPS Director Troken Roberts has confirmed the handing over of Patrick Kollie to the police. In a press release…